Nigeria is expecting the delivery of the second batch of 3.92 million doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in July, the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, has disclosed.
Shuibu who disclosed this on Tuesday at a media briefing on vaccination update, alongside officials of the WHO and UNICEF, said the vaccines will be obtained through the COVAX, but from non-Indian sources due to the surge in the pandemic in India.
He said administration of the second dose of the vaccine will end by June 25, while it resumes the administration of the first dose of the vaccine in the second phase of vaccination.
Shuibu again assured Nigerians that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is 92 percent effective against the Indian (Delta) variant B.1.617.2.
“As of today, we have administered 1,978,808 first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and 680,345-second doses,” he said.
“We now have information that Nigeria will get 3.92m doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca by the end of July or early August. As we receive additional information on the exact dates in August, we will provide an update regarding timelines and details of this.”
